Chicago Calling

Dec 31, 1951

1h 15m

★ 7.0

$53 means life or death to him!

Overview

Bill Cannon (Dan Duryea) loses everything to alcohol: his job, his family, his self-respect. Soon after his wife and daughter leave him, he receives word his little girl has been injured in a car accident outside Chicago. His wife will call later with news, but Bill’s short the $53 he needs to keep his phone from being disconnected. Filled with anguish, he heads out onto the Los Angeles streets to find some way to come up with the cash. As his character encounters expected cruelty and unexpected kindness, Duryea takes what might have been mere melodrama and turns it into a perceptive examination of one shattered soul. The other fine star of this race-against-the-clock programmer is an unglamorous, lunch-bucket L.A. rarely captured on film.

Genres

Drama

Thriller

Production Companies

Arrowhead Pictures

Chicago Calling Trailers

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Cast

Bill Cannon

Dan Duryea

Mary Cannon

Mary Anderson

Bobby

Gordon Gebert

Jim

Ross Elliott

Nancy Cannon

Melinda Casey

Babs Kimball

Judy Brubaker

Peggy (as Marsha Jones)

Marcia Mae Jones

Peggy

Marsha Jones

Pete

Roy Engel

Christine

Jean Harvey

Police Lt. Ryan

Steve Pendleton

Guard

Gene Roth

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